The Cool Aviation Picture 2 - Electric Boogaloo

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The Falcon 21 or F-16AT was proposed in 1990 as a low-cost alternative to the ATF. It was to use the basic F-16XL design, along with one of the proposed ATF engines. However, it was to use a trapezoidal delta wing rather than the F-16XL's cranked-arrow wing.

The McDonnell-Douglas/Northrop Grumman/BAe Systems entrant to the US Armed Forces ASTOVL program. The ASTOVL program was one of the predecessors of the Joint Strike Fighter program.

 

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F-107 “Wild Weasel” attacks a SAM site in North Vietnam. (Erik Simonsen artist)

Erik Simonsen​

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Dassault Mirage G.

 

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Three proposed variants of the Transall C-160.
Variant number 1: The Transall C-160AEW Airborne Early Warning aircraft

Variant number 2: The Transall C-160S Maritime Surveillance Aircraft

Variant number 3: The Transall C-160ASF - An armed version of the C-160S for sea surveillance, fitted with a search radar, several observation blisters and launching tubes for smoke and other buoys. The C-160ASF also had a retractable radar under the fuselage and pylons for up to four AM 39 Exocet missiles or other munitions.

 

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BAC TSR-2

 

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VF-171 Nightmare Plus (Macross Frontier)

VF-0C Phoenix (Macross Zero)

VF-31A Kairos coming in for a landing (Macross Delta)

 

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Lockheed Martin 6th Generation fighter concept by asterozoa

 

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McDonnell-Douglas MD-263. The MD-263 was one of the competing designs for the Navy Air Combat Fighter (NACF) program in the 1970s. There were both single and twin engine proposals for it. McDonnell-Douglas would eventually work with Northrop and repurpose the YF-17 Cobra into the F/A-18 Hornet.

 

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A tribute to British aviation.

 

[Jim Smitty]

A tribute to British aviation.

That would be a hell of a fly by if they some how manage to pull it off

 

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Pakistan Air Force J-10CP vs Indian Air Force Dassault Rafale

 

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Northrop B-2A Spirit taking off

RCAF F-35 in flight

A Cosmo Tiger of the EDF escorting Santa as he delivers presents across the globe (Space Battleship Yamato)

 

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Artist interpretation of a C-5A Galaxy modified for use as a maritime patrol/anti-submarine warfare plane.

Boeing CP-137. It was a proposal to Canada for a long range ASW platform which would have replaced the Argus in Canadian service. It ultimately lost out to the Lockheed CP-140 Aurora.

 

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The Boeing Model 908-618-2, Boeing's entry to the Lightweight Fighter Program

Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow

 

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From a brochure regarding Lockheed Martin's proposed naval F-22.

 

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The Northrop Grumman X-47B launching from the USS George H. W. Bush (CVN-77) in 2013.

 

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A Lockheed C-141 Starlifter in Royal Canadian Air Force markings.

A hybrid of the Short Belfast and Lockheed C-141 proposed to the RAF for Specification ASR-364 in the 1960s. It used a modified Belfast fuselage with the wings, engines, and tail surfaces of the C-141.

 

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Luftwaffe F-35A Lightning II

 

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An A-10 Thunderbolt II and F-16 Fighting Falcon of the USAF flying in formation with a pair of Pakistan Air Force JF-17 Thunders.

 

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